Reuse Controller Actions

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Suppose I have protected/controllers/PostController/actionCreate()

How can I re-use this same action (and its view) in protected/modules/admin/controllers/PostController/actionCreate()

I do not want to redirect the user - I just don’t want to have to replicate the same code in both actions.

2

Create a CAction class?




class PostCreate extends CAction

{

  public function run()

  {


  }

}

Then reference it in your controller.




public function actions()

{

  return array(

    'create' => 'path here to action class file'

  );

}
3

You could just forward the request: http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/1.1/CController#forward-detail

4

Keith - using forward() also brings in the layout file, which I do not want.

alex-w - do I need to create separate class files for each action?

5

Anybody got any ideas?

6

No, You can still have actions in the controller.

Creating an action class just allows you to use it from other controllers.